Paper-release device for type-writers



PATENTED FEB. 16, 1904.

L. MYERS. PAPER RELEASE DEVICE FOR TYPE WRITERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 14, 1903.

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No. 752,092. Patented February 16, 1904.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS MYERS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO UNDERWOOD TYPEWRITER COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY,

PAPER-RELEASE DEVICE FOR TYPE-WRITERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 752,092, dated February 16, 1904.

Application filed May 14, 1903. Serial No. 157,054. (No model.)

T ll wh m it y Gov/067%: F G normally keep the rollers D against the 45 Be it known that I, LoUIs MYERS, a citizen platen and the roller C in engagement with of the United States, and a resident of Hartthe extension E However, the mere weight ford, county of Hartford, State of Connectiof the paper-shelf C may be suflicient to keep 5 out, have invented certain new and useful Imthe roller C against the extension E The provements in Paper Release Devices for front portion of the roller E is provided with 5 Type -Writers, of which the following is a a scale E. It will be understood that the paper specification. is introduced in the usual manner between the My invention relates to machines, such as shelf C and the platen B and is kept against the 0 type-writers, in which a sheet of paper is fed platen by the rollers D.

over a suitable surface, such as a platen, and When it is desired to release the paper, the is normally pressed against said platen by deoperator presses against the upper portion of vices generally in the nature of rollers. the shelf .6 or against the paper lying on said The object of my invention is to provide a shelf in the direction indicated by the arrow 5 simple mechanism for throwing the said presin Fig. 2. This causes the rollers C to be sure-exerting devices into and out of their opswung forward and swings the carrier E on erative position. its fulcrum E in such a manner as to carry the To this end my invention consists in certain rollers D away from the platen. As soon as features of construction and combinations of the rearward pressure on the shelf C is discon 3 parts, as will be fully described hereinafter, tinned the springs will return the parts to their and particularly pointed out in the appended original position. 5 claims. It will be seen that my invention provides a Reference is to be had to the accompanying paper-release device of great simplicity,which drawings, in which- 7 device is readily operated,since the paper-shelf 5 Figure l is a rear elevation showing a porwhich forms the operating-handle, as it were,

tion of a type-writer carriage with my invene is easily accessible. 7 tion applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a sectional I claim as my invention and desire to secure elevation on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. I by Letters Patent A designates that portion of the carriage in 1. Inatype-writer or like machine, the comwhich the platen B is journaled. bination with the platen offla carrier pivoted C is a paper-shelf, which'is located in the adjacent to said platen, pressure-exerting derear of the platen. This paper-shelf is stavices mounted upon said carrier, and a pivoted tionary in machines as constructed hitherto; paper-shelf engaging said carrier to shift the but according to my invention the paper-shelf gsame.

i is pivotally connected with the frame A, as 2. Inatype-writer or like machine, aplaten,

indicated at C, and has an extension 0 prefa carrier movably mounted adjacent thereto, erably carrying a roll (J at its free end. The pressure-exertingdevices mounted on said carpressure-exerting devices consist of rolls D, rier, and an independently-mounted paperadapted to engage the platen and mounted shelf movable relatively to said carrier and enupon shafts D, which are supported by a cargaging the same to shift it relatively to the rier E, extending partly around the platen. platen. 5 This carrier is fulcrumed on the frame A at E 3. In atype-writer orlike machine, a platen, and has a projection E engaged by the roller a carrier pivoted in the rear of the platen and G which is carried by the shelf (1- Springs provided with an upward extension adjacent to its pivot, pressure-exerting devices mountto this specification in the presence of two subed on said carrier, and a paper-shelf pivoted scribing Witnesses. in the rear of the platen, above the said carrier, and provided with a downward extension LOUIS MYERS 5 arranged in the rear of-and in engagement with Witnesses:

the upward extension of the carrier. J OHN LoTKA,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name EUGENE EBLE. 

